Suggestion for reading (was Fwd: [liberationtech] Fake News)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Yosem Companys" Date: Dec 9, 2016 1:51 AM Subject: [liberationtech] Fake News To: "Liberation Technologies" <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu>, Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? Thanks, Yosem -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu. ======= Hi again, shiny happy people! :D I strongly recommend the reading of this amazing thread on the Liberation Technologies list. It's gorgeous, pretty interesting, with 70 or more messages until the moment! I loved it, Yosem! Thank you very much! <3 Hey, Rr, ask to Luiz Moncau, one of the cute Stanford guys who wrote a message on this thread, about my existence! :D He knows me in person and will tell you I do exist and I seem a happy dumb puppy, pretty cute, but terribly clumsy and crazy, hahaha!! ;D I do love cats, but unhappily I never had feline elegance and charm. Hmm... Maybe only when flirting... Meow, baby! ;) - PS for Mirimir, the person: - Mirimir, the ugliest cat that I already saw in my whole life, is being brave, but he is dying faster than I expected, my love. He will probably not see 2017 arrives, but I promise his last days will be full of love, care and food, my dear. Like you, he is a great explorer, pretty curious and loves eating fish and strange music. He likes to meow when my neighbour listens to bizarre songs (Brazilian funk 'pancadão', with vulgar bad words and explicit sexual content). I was very proud until yesterday, thinking he also detested them like me and was complaining in cat's language, but noticed he was purring while meowing, hahaha!!! Traitor of the good music, haha!! ;D He wants attention and when I try to sleep, he simply sits on my face and I can't breath... Now Zzz will tell everybody I am 'lesbian' because I had a 'bald pussy' on my face in the last days, aff... Mirimir has lost his fur and is so bald as Zzz. Hope this guy leaves the closet soon to stop annoying LGBT people. He needs lots of love (and anal sex!) for being a better person! :-/ OK, I will try to sleep a bit and stop writing so much. (-_-)* zzzzz Mirimir, the cat, and his pet, Ceci, wish you all a great life! Meow meow meow!!! <3 <3 <3 - PS's PS: - "Dear Santa, I am writing to tell you that I have been naughty, but -- wow! -- it was worth it! With love, Ceci. :D"
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/25/2016 09:41 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Yosem Companys" Date: Dec 9, 2016 1:51 AM Subject: [liberationtech] Fake News To: "Liberation Technologies" <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu <mailto:liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu>>,
Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome?
Not me, and I think it's not likely that such a study will turn up any time soon. A study analyzing the impact of "fake news" would have to present a defensible thesis based on begging the question, as "fake news" is a buzzword promoted by a propaganda campaign. As an example of actually fake news, I would cite the Big Lie that Russia "interfered with" the election. Numerous unsourced allegations presented as straight news grew up around one press release from one Department of Homeland Security dated October 7, 2016, asserting that Russia interfered with the Presidential election. Note that this was a press release, a.k.a. propaganda placement. Its content is attributed to the USIC (United States Intelligence Community). As there is no such agency or department, this speculative assertion can not be attributed to any formal process or responsible party, which confirms its status as fake news: "The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks .com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process." https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-department-homeland- security-and-office-director-national No causal link is presented connecting Russian "methods and motivations" with disclosures "intended to interfere with the US election process." The statement presents an example of transfer, a widely recognized classic propaganda technique. Subsequent stories asserting that the CIA has confirmed this speculation follow this template: A reporter says an anonymous source claimed an unnamed senior intelligence official told them that unspecified secret information confirms Russian involvement in releasing incriminating DNC e-mails to Wikileaks. The Obama Administration propaganda placement blaming the leak on Russia was a component of a larger campaign to demonize Trump by depicting his stated willingness to negotiate with Russia as proof of collaboration with a foreign enemy. Post-election, it became the rarely-cited but always referenced cornerstone of a separate campaign asserting that the election was stolen by Russia and Trump. The content of the leaked documents this camapign references indicates that Clinton's DNC conspired to steal the primary from Sanders. News stories about "Russia interfering" never deny that the leaked documents are authentic, because drawing any attention to their content would defeat the diversionary purpose of the entire Big Lie campaign: Blame Russia, not the DNC, for handing Trump the Presidency. The original DHS propaganda placement is the best known and most often repeated Big Lie of the election. But, even after showing that it presents an example of "fake news" - a very defensible proposition - how can an academic develop persuasive evidence that this fake news influenced the outcome of the Presidential election? :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYYTsZAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq6t8IAL08LulABxBLIVc+MPuTNDb1 sIK0M8gljNP4TPA6IGvRRKKK7xrYAyetjZw4DxKeck36iKK67fyQS6OOiUXOwVSU GkJbdR/QGbDdhZQWF5jT+7TTN9SO/2ta6uyh30EIWgH6iMtcTs5MfA1dek64i3cf qSrtr4Z2QA6V2WrZaOG3GHjAWIbN9zEdGAuSESkSb9BSlpEhYdvcUkSEkIsDpR0k //ta5IxMWbMNyllDIFLztEt3F0U0UzGW/++LgRGS5UPvUxs7SJvmlMiAH4k6S7nz VUZWMidIDRSxy1x671McUsGh9f9EtIOUTqwQErUBOyKAm9Bqqe9c5zyk5WFx8bo= =77zx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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